Business Insider Article on "There's A Huge Online 'Black Market' For Beauty Sample Castoffs"

There's A Huge Online 'Black Market' For Beauty Sample Castoffs

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/online-black-market-for-beauty-samples-2013-3#ixzz2OZzbi6gP

I ran into this article and I thought all you beauty bloggers or people who subscribe to the beauty bags or boxes out there should take a look.

Sasa Haul

My order finally arrived. I made another Sasa purchase from the Asian beauty online store (sasa.com). I put in an order on October 12th and it arrived October 30th. So it took around three weeks which isn't bad....especially how we recently had major hurricane weather.

 

Again, my items came in a white box. Inside the box there are lots of packing peanuts and bubble wrap. I never have any complaints about their packaging. My items always arrives safe and un-damaged.

 

 

 

 

 

There is always an itemized receipt inside the box too. This way you can double check on which products you've order and how much. 

So, let’s talk about the interesting part of my order...the products!! At first I was planning on making a purchase for my mom's items. But by the time I've checked out I have added two items for myself. I can't resist. I always want to try new items and these two items I've purchase my family and others online rave about so I've just got to try.

 

So for my mom, I brought her two Yanagiya Gray Hair Cover Foundation - Dark Brown Color. They were $22.10 each. I know it's kind of pricy but my mom just can't live without these. I will write a review on these items soon.
 

 

The items I got for myself is the HadaLabo Gokujyun Super Hyaluronic Acid Lotion (170ml) and the HadaLabo Gokujyun Moisturizing Cream (50g).  Again, I will write reviews on these two items at a later time. 
 

 



 

And this time I was able to get a free sample.  I forgot if it's was a promotional item with a coupon code on their site or if it's something they just thrown in.  It's the Suisse Programme Cellular Aqua Night Cream (2ml).  And on the receipt it says "Free Gift" 

 

 

 

Anyone made a sasa purchase lately?  What items you get?  Any recommendation on items I should try?  Let me know!

My first purchase from Sasa.com

What should I talk about first? Let's start with sasa.com. I'm sure everyone knows about this site. For any reason, if there's someone out there who don't...someone like me, who recently learned about this site...than let me tell you a little bit about it.

Sasa is a huge cosmetics retailing group in Asia. They have hundreds of store and a huge variety of Asian to European beauty products. They have things from skincare, makeup, and beauty health supplements. And if you don't live in places like Hong Kong, Macau, Mainland China, Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan than the next best thing to purchase their items is from their website, Sasa.com.

So my little sister recently introduced me to sheet masks. And you guessed it...that's what I've purchased from sasa.com. I brought three boxes of them. I brought two boxes of My Beauty Dairy sheet masks and one from My Scheming. I will talk about these products in detail in later posts. So what's my experience with sasa.com? Well, I've gotten 10% off on my items. I know it doesn't sound like much but every little of saving helps right? Also they had a promo that any purchase over $29 USD would get free shipping. And how often do they have free shipping with such small purchases. I ordered my stuff on July 16th and the package came today, July 30. It is a pretty decent time for an overseas order. And I'm very happy with their packaging. Even though the box was a little beaten up (which is not their fault) everything was well protected with bubble wrap and those little white popcorn thingy (I suddenly don't know what they are called...head is hurting thinking about it). That site always has different kinds of sales too. So you might stop by a couple of times first before you go ahead and make a purchase.

Well if you guys go and check this site out...Happy Shopping ok!!  Everything purchased is out of my own pocket.  I'm not affiliated with this site.  Thought I had to mention this.  :)

Welcome everyone!

Welcome everyone!  I was never into beauty products or makeup. But now with two kids and getting older I want to start looking into these issues and hopefully I can help myself look and stay younger. So everyone out there please come and help me through this process. ;)